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Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

African Archaeological Review, 2021
This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J.
G. D’Ercole
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From Coastal Sites to Elevated Hinterland Locations in the Mesolithic – Discussing Human–Woodland Interaction in the Oslo Fjord Region, Southeast Norway

Open Archaeology, 2023
The coastal areas of Southeast Norway underwent dramatic environmental changes throughout the Mesolithic period. Continuous postglacial land uplift/isostatic rebound lead to retreating shorelines turning former seabed into coastal hinterland.
Schülke Almut
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Mesolithic Occupations During the Boreal Climatic Fluctuations at La Baume de Monthiver (Var, France)

Open Archaeology, 2023
The Mesolithic technology in Western Europe depicts the last cultural expressions and adaptations of hunter-gatherers before the adoption of Neolithic agro-pastoral practices.
Ricci Giulia, Audiard Benjamin, Tomasso Antonin, Hoareau Leïla, Julien Marie-Anne, Mologni Carlo, Purdue Louise, Porraz Guillaume   +7 more
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Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years

Humanities, 2019
The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible ...
Lutz Fiedler, Christian Humburg, Horst Klingelhöfer, Sebastian Stoll, Manfred Stoll   +4 more
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Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear

Internet Archaeology, 2007
Palaeodietary reconstruction is a key to understanding Mesolithic lifeways. Dental microwear analysis is a tool for investigating palaeodiet using microscopic tooth wear patterns.
T. Rowan McLaughlin
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“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Mesolithic Colonisation Processes and Landscape Usage of the Inner-Alpine Region Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)

Open Archaeology, 2022
The region Kleinwalsertal (Vorarlberg, Austria) represents one of the numerous little-known archaeological areas of the Austrian Alps. Here, over 90 sites were found since the 1980s, including surficial flint scatters as well as excavated sites, mainly ...
Posch Caroline
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Stone Tools Continuity of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Population of the Lower Kama River Region

Поволжская археология, 2013
A widespread thesis concerning population continuity in the Lower Kama region during the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic is challenged in the article.
Viskalin Aleksandr V.
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Consumers, not Contributors? The Study of the Mesolithic and the Study of Hunter-Gatherers

Open Archaeology, 2022
This article examines the relationship between the archaeology of the Mesolithic and the broader archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Bibliographic reviews of articles presented at past MESO conferences and recent high-ranking Mesolithic ...
Elliott Ben, Warren Graeme
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An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia

Scientific Reports, 2020
The extensive peat bogs of Southern Scandinavia have yielded rich Mesolithic archaeological assemblages, with one of the most iconic artefacts being the bone point. Although great in number they remain understudied.
T. Z. T. Jensen, A. Sjöström, A. Fischer, Erika Rosengren, L. Lanigan, O. Bennike, K. Richter, K. J. Gron, M. Mackie, M. Mortensen, L. Sørensen, D. Chivall, K. H. Iversen, A. J. Taurozzi, J. Olsen, H. Schroeder, N. Milner, M. Sørensen, M. Collins   +18 more
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Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation

PLoS Biology, 2018
Scandinavia was one of the last geographic areas in Europe to become habitable for humans after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, the routes and genetic composition of these postglacial migrants remain unclear.
Torsten Günther, Helena Malmström, E. Svensson, A. Omrak, Federico Sánchez-Quinto, G. M. Kılınç, Maja Krzewińska, Gunilla Eriksson, M. Fraser, Hanna Edlund, Arielle R. Munters, Alexandra Coutinho, Luciana G. Simões, M. Vicente, A. Sjölander, Berit Jansen Sellevold, R. Jørgensen, P. Claes, M. Shriver, C. Valdiosera, M. Netea, J. Apel, K. Lidén, B. Skar, J. Storå, A. Götherström, M. Jakobsson   +26 more
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